This practical guide provides landholders and project managers with helpful techniques to check whether sites newly managed for conservation are on track to improve. The key to the techniques outlined in the guide is a shift in perspective from looking up at the trees, to looking down to the soils, grasses and wildflowers in the…
A description of the important role fungi play in our native ecosystems, as well as information on foraging for fungi.
Promoting events run by your Landcare group can have huge advantages in increasing the profile of your group, encouraging people in your local community to get involved, and possibly even helping you get sponsorship and support from local businesses. This guide provides tips and ideas on various promotional avenues, including: Print media: Posters and flyers…
This manual is a guide for members of the Landcare community who are either thinking about starting to use social media, or who have been using it for a while but would like to learn more. It covers the key platforms of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Produced by Landcare Australia, 23 pages
Greening Australia has developed a series of ‘how-to’ guides, designed to help those involved in revegetation or restoration works. These introductory guides are for people wishing to learn, or be reminded about, the basic principles and practices of planting trees, shrubs and grasses for revegetation. The guides describe eight key steps that need to be…
This video series features information, pictures and calls of a range of native bird species found in different habitat elements of the Box Gum Grassy Woodlands of our region. Produced through the Communities in Landscapes project, Ground Dwellers (8 minutes) Shrub Dwellers (7 minutes) Hollow Nesters (10 minutes) Canopy Dwellers (24 minutes)
This book features 20 case studies on landholders who were involved in Murrumbidgee Landcare’s Cross Property project. Each landholder talks about their reasons for choosing to be involved in the project, the NRM work they have undertaken on their property, and their top tips for integrating conservation and biodiversity on their farms.
This Fact Sheet describes the results of recent research into the impact of tree plantings on native reptiles, and the importance of granite outcrops.
This Fact Sheet describes some of the species of frogs found in the south-west slopes region, and the ways in which we can help protect their habitat.
This Fact Sheet summarises the findings and recommendations from a series of flora and fauna surveys conducted through Murrumbidgee Landcare’s Cross Property Project.